Wildfire often causes tremendous changes in ecosystems, particularly in subalpine and alpine areas, which are vulnerable due to severe climate conditions such as cold temperature and strong wind. This study aimed to clarify the effect of tree re-planting on ecosystem services such as the soil microbial community after several decades. We compared the re-planted forest and grassland with the mat...

In many areas, chemical and biological characteristics of soils change when trees colonize meadows. To determine if the invasion of high meadows by forests in the central Cascade Mountains of Oregon altered soil properties, we measured soil properties along transects from mountain meadows through transition zones, where trees were becoming established, into mature forest. The differences observ...

BACKGROUND Soil characteristics have been hypothesised as one of the possible mechanisms leading to monodominance of Gilbertiodendron dewerei in some areas of Central Africa where higher-diversity forest would be expected. However, the differences in soil characteristics between the G. dewevrei-dominated forest and its adjacent mixed forest are still poorly understood. Here we present the soil ...

Although rain forest is characterized as pyrophobic, pyrophilic giant eucalypts grow as rain forest emergents in both temperate and tropical Australia. In temperate Australia, such eucalypts depend on extensive, infrequent fires to produce conditions suitable for seedling growth. Little is known, however, about constraints on seedlings of tropical giant eucalypts. We tested whether seedlings of...

Soil core samples were taken on April 13, 2011 at three sites in Fukushima prefecture: Hiwada in Koriyama-city (Site 1; N 37°28′32′′, E 140°23′17′′; two cores were obtained in Site 1), Yabuki in Nishi-Shirakawa-county (Site 2; N 37°11′59′′, E 140°20′37′′), and Iizaka in Fukushimacity (Site 3; N 37°48′50′′, E 140°26′34′′). The distances of the three sites from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...

We evaluated annual productivity and carbon fluxes over the Fontainebleau forest, a large heterogeneous forest region of 17,000 ha, in terms of species composition, canopy structure, stand age, soil type and water and mineral resources. The model is a physiological process-based forest ecosystem model coupled with an allocation model and a soil model. The simulations were done stand by stand, i...

It will help understand the representation legality of soil temperature to explore the correlations of soil respiration with variant properties of soil temperature. Soil temperature at 10 cm depth was hourly logged through twelve months. Basing on the measured soil temperature, soil respiration at different temporal scales were calculated using empirical functions for temperate forests. On mont...

Forest soil carbon (C) storage is a significant component of the global C cycle, and is important for sustaining forest productivity. Although forest management may have substantial impacts on soil C storage, experimental data from forest harvesting studies have not been synthesized recently. To quantify the effects of harvesting on soil C, and to identify sources of variation in soil C respons...

The work examines the vital activity of mollusks. About 160 species terrestrial mollusks have been identified in Uzbekistan. It has established that 12 live on plains steppe serozem soils at heights. Psychromezobionts hydromorphic soil among turf and under stones. Typical dark are home to over 20 On brown, brown-mountain-forest, light-brown meadow-steppe soils, 4 endemic live. Brackish-water we...